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Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) today announced in their newly published State of the Sector report that they provided $682 million in loans to 765 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during 2016. This financing helped to generate an estimated $7.6 billion in combined annual revenue among these businesses, which employ 75,000 individuals […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NAIROBI, Kenya, February 6, 2017 — Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) announced at their regional meeting that they have formally adopted a set of jointly developed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. These principles apply across the nine members’ loan portfolios, which in 2015 encompassed $597 million to […]

Lending grows by over 70% since 2013, yet agricultural SMEs face ongoing challenges and risks FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NAIROBI, Kenya, July 12, 2016 – Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) today announced in their Year in Review report that they provided $597 million in loans to 672 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) today announced that they provided $564 million in loans to 658 small and medium-sized businesses in 64 countries during 2014, an increase of 56 percent from 2013.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—OXFORD, United Kingdom, April 10—Seven international social lending institutions have announced the launch of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF), an industry council focused on creating a thriving, sustainable and transparent financial market to serve the financing needs of small and growing agricultural businesses in low- and middle-income countries worldwide.